The NEWSLETTER Alumni CLEVELAND HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION MAY 2017 Volume 23, Issue 2 Rededication of the CHS MEMORIAL FOREST

FRONT SIDE BACK SIDE The granite is carved and the new monument for the CHS Memorial Forest will be installed just in time for the memorial ceremony on 26 May 2017. This will be a major event. The monument replaces the bronze plaques listing our fallen heroes from World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War. The bronze plaques were stolen and likely sold for scrap metal. The 3x4 foot granite monument weighs nearly a ton and will be difficult to steal. It was funded by an anonymous donor. his year’s ceremony at the Cleveland High School forest. The new monument was paid for by an anony- TMemorial Forest will be like no other. We are re- mous donor. dedicating the Forest to fallen alumni who lost their The ceremony is expected to include a fly-over of air- lives in military service. We honor them with a new craft and guest speakers from the school district and the granite monument to replace the bronze plaques that were, for many years, mounted to ‘the rock’ deep in the See REDEDICATION (PAGE 2) PAGE 1 CLEVELAND HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION ( CHSAA ) REDEDICATION (Continued from page 1) FROM THE PRINCIPAL’S DESK high school. We have invited Superintendent Nyland TEM at Cleveland High of Seattle Public Schools, and Principal Breland from School has had an event- CHS. fulS period since our last We are not sure if we will have a single aircraft or a newsletter communication. group of World War II fighter planes. [We wanted a B52 On March 15, 2017, Seattle bomber in the fly-over, but they were all committed to Public Schools honored the protecting our nation.] It is rumored that the Air Force Cleveland community with an will send a squadron of stealth fighters but we may not award of appreciation: be able to see them. In recognition of Cleve- As with all of our ceremonies at the Forest, it will in- land STEM High School’s clude an Honor Guard from Camp Murray, the firing commitment to eliminating of a salute, the playing of Taps, and the folding and the opportunity gaps for his- presentation of the flag to a survivor. The flag folding torically underserved students. We are fortunate will be performed by CHS students. in Seattle Public Schools to have a number of We expect a large number of students – hopefully the “positive outlier” schools that continue to pro- freshman class. Students and guests will all be served vide leadership and inspiration for our com- refreshments. As usual, the CHS Alumni Association munity. Seattle Public Schools recognizes and pays for all expenses, including bus rental fees, for this acknowledges Cleveland STEM High School’s event through alumni donations. hard work, success, and innovation. Cleveland STEM High continues to “Eliminate the Oppor- ‘The Rock’ is located deep in the forest and for many tunity Gap” for our students. years contained bronze plaques. The initial plaque in- cluded the CHS alumni who lost their lives while serv- The Cleveland community wants to express its grati- ing in the armed forces during World War II. Plaques tude to the Cleveland Alumni Association for its gener- were added following the Korean and Vietnam Wars ous support of the music and career choices programs listing the alumni that we lost in those conflicts. In 2014 at Cleveland. We are excited to hear our music stu- it was discovered that the plaques were ripped off – and dents playing new music on repaired and/or new mu- probably sold for scrap metal. Who could do such a sical instruments and in new Cleveland music attire! thing ??? The career choices class has incorporated a job shadow experience at various business and agency sites in the The new granite monument will not be located deep in greater Seattle Area. We are excited about the results the forest. It will be located in the open area where we from the 2015-16 school year: student pre/post sur- hold our ceremonies. It won’t be easy to steal because vey demonstrated gains across race and ethnicity, gen- it weighs nearly a ton . . . and granite monuments don’t der, and students of color in the areas of 21st Century have a great resale value. skills*; Interests; Aspirations, Jobs & Career; and, Fi- If you haven’t been to the Forest before, or if it has been nancial Literacy. a long time, this is a good year to attend the ceremony. Spring sports are underway! Boys and girls tennis and To many alumni it is a wonderful experience. track, boys baseball and soccer, and girls softball-fast Wars are started by or in response to greedy people. pitch and ultimate frisbee, are all underway. We want Young men and women go off to fight to protect their to recognize Lucas King who will be attending Colo- homeland. Many do not return, giving their lives in ser- rado School of the Mines on a soccer scholarship. vice to their country. A grateful public builds memorials Our next big event is the 9th Annual Red and White to honor their fallen heroes and that is what the students Auction on Saturday, April 29th. The planning com- of Cleveland High School did during and after World mittee has been busy planning Putting on the Glitz, a War II. But it’s not a one-time event. Often is the case roaring 20s themed event being held at South Seattle College in the Brockey Center: For more informa- where annual ceremonies are held to honor the fallen, tion contact Ms. Teresa Scribner at tescribner@seattle- just as we do at the CHS Memorial Forest. So goes the schools.org tradition of the nation, so goes the tradition of our alum- ni – WE HONOR OUR FALLEN HEROES !!! We are looking forward to joining the Alumni Associa- tion at the Cleveland High School Memorial Forest for the annual Memorial Day Ceremony and Memorial Re- Dedication on Friday, May 26th. See you there! PLEASE see the information on page 5 for the time George L. Breland, Principal and location. STEM @ Cleveland High School — John Barton ‘54 * The term 21st century skills refers to a broad set of knowledge, skills, work habits, and character traits that are believed — by educators, school reformers, college professors, employers,— to be critically important to success in today’s world.

PAGE 2 CLEVELAND HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION ( CHSAA ) CLEVELAND HIGH SCHOOL BOARD MEMBERS: ALUMNI ASSOCIATION P.O. Box 94004 Seattle, WA 98124-9404 Arleen (Heimberger) Hubbell ‘55 www.clevelandalumsea.org Phone: 253-221-2297 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected]

OFFICERS: Steve Brady ‘86 President: Bernie Moskowitz ‘57 Phone: 253-653-0892 Phone: 206-772-6285 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Vice President: John R. Barton ‘54 Phone: 425-432-9592 Email: [email protected] Membership Secretary: JoAnn Victor Smith ‘56 Phone: 425-487-3952 Position #4 Vacant Email: [email protected] Position #5 Vacant Treasurer: Allen Storaasli ‘62 Position #6 Vacant Phone: 253-946-0554 Position #8 Vacant Email: [email protected] Position #9 Vacant Recording Secretary: Mary Lou (Zarkades) Barton ‘54 Phone: 425-432-9592 Email: [email protected]

PUBLICATION TEAM

John Barton ‘54 PUBLICATION INFO JoAnn Victor Smith ‘56 Our publication is currently Ken Smith ‘57 around 6600 copies. Alison Sing ‘64 Pat Rosenkranz ‘49 Mary Lou Zarkades Barton ‘54 Spring in Seattle when the rain gets warmer !!!

PAGE 3 CLEVELAND HIGH SCHOOL ASSOCIATION ( CHSAA ) FEEDBACK FROM OUR READER John: Thanks for the news letter. I am amazed at all the information in it! You and Mary Lou and the rest of the committee deserve high praise for all the work you put into it. I will be contacting JoAnn Smith to put a notice in the A NOTE TO OUR issue regarding the class of 1952’s 65th reunion. It will YOUNGER READERS be held on June 15, 2017 at Foster golf course. If you and Mary Lou would like to attend I will send you a My name is John Barton and I am the editor of flyer. this publication. I graduated from CHS in 1954 and that makes me a dinosaur. As a consequence, Hope you are having a great 2017. I am out of touch with the type of articles that you Jim Lambo ‘52 might be interested in reading. The solution is to have you be a key player in our publication team. We need assistance from YOU in establishing the Mary Lou & John Barton - Thank you for telling my content, layout and style of the newsletter. Cleveland High School “Family” about my mom’s character and accomplishments. We know you can help. The question is . . . WILL YOU ??? She wasn’t able to come to our high school baseball games because she was busy at Boeing helping to make airplanes but my stepdad was at almost every game sit- ting with the Mozzone parents [Dick & Don twins] handing out bubble gum to the team and fans. Sincerely, your friend & classmate — Ventris Ingram ‘54 [Editors note: We published a nice story in the January issue about his mom being one of the original Rosie the Riveter’s.]

John — Interesting newsletter. Some of the alumni had some pretty interesting careers. You seem quite anxious about get- ting new material to include in the newsletter. I might be able to add an article in the near future about coach Johnny Cherberg and our championship football team of 1937 and some of the players. I’ll do my best to get it together and send it in the next cou- ple of weeks or so. — Emil Martin ‘40 [Editors note: His excellent article on Johnny Cherberg Alumni et al. is provided on page 12.] Newsletter Fans Are you one of those people that rush to your mailbox everyday hoping that the latest copy of your Alum- ni Newsletter has arrived? Are you thrilled with the wonderful, informative articles within? Or are you NOW HEAR THIS !!! one of those people that see the shortcomings of the We received praise from some readers about newsletter and recognize that with a little bit of quality the newsletter. The newsletter couldn’t be help it could be significantly improved? Now is your produced without the publishing team . . . chance to join the wonderful publication team that as- BUT . . . the key to success is having good sembles this newsletter. All you need is access to the participation by our readers — especially in internet. Add some luster to your life and join the fun. FEEDBACK and the Alumni Updates. Contact John Barton ‘54 or any other board member if you are interested. Contact info is provided on page 3. Your participation is the key to our . . . SUCCESS !!!

PAGE 4 CLEVELAND HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION ( CHSAA ) The CHS MEMORIAL FOREST The Alumni Association Honors Our War Heroes FRIDAY, 26 MAY 2017 TIME 11:00 AM Cleveland High School is the only high school in the universe that has a Memorial Forest. Every Friday preceding the Me- morial Day weekend the CHS Alumni Association has a ceremony at the Cleveland High School Memorial Forest to honor alumni* who lost their lives while serving in the United States Armed Forces. Our ceremony typically includes guest speak- ers to tell stories about some of the men that are honored at our Memorial Forest, and about military life in the armed forces. A Honor Guard from Camp Murray fires a salute to our fallen heroes and Bernie Moskowitz ‘57 plays Taps. Bernie is the lead bugler at Tahoma National Cemetery. CHS students participate in a flag-folding exercise, and the flag is presented to a survivor of a fallen loved one. Most years, with permission, we have students plant two or three trees. After the ceremony, refreshments are served to the students and guests. In some years we have had four busloads of students and this year we are hoping for a large turnout — the freshman class is expected to come. Everyone is encouraged to make the trek to the Rock. The bronze plaques naming our fallen alumni are no longer there but it’s good to see this special place in the forest where our heroes were honored for so many years. Note: All expenses are paid by the CHS Alumni Associa- tion. As can be seen in the maps below our Memorial Forest is located between Issaquah and Fall City. After the ceremony a number of us usually go to the Fall City Roadhouse & Inn for lunch. The Roadhouse provides a pleasant, old-fashioned set- ting that is perfect for renewing old acquaintances and making new friends. It’s a wonderful way to end a memorable day. For a day you will long remember, join us for the ceremony at the Forest and for lunch at the Roadhouse. For those of you using a GPS the address is 28322 SE Issaquah-Fall City Road, Fall City, WA. * Our fallen heroes of WW II are documented in Honored Dead by our own Pat Rosenkranz ‘49.

MAP TO CHS MEMORIAL FOREST * Exit I-90 as shown on map below. * Follow SE Issaquah-Fall City Road to the Forest as shown on map at right.

PAGE 5 CLEVELAND HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION ( CHSAA ) DIVERSITY AT CHS TREASURER’S REPORT By Ken Smith ‘57 Allen Storaasli ‘62 After WWII and well toward the end of the 20TH Cen- tury, many Cleveland students of European parentage Treasurer Report, April 2017 didn’t know much about their classmates with a different heritage. For example, it took me years after I graduated Our balances remain level. The Scholarship En- in 1957 to realize that some of my fellow Japanese stu- dowment Fund (SEF), which is all in Edward dents had lived with their parents in internment camps. Jones investments, had risen so $5000 could be I knew that some black students had migrated from the considered for SEF scholarships. South, but I was ignorant of the culture of South, of Major expenditures this year: the lives of sharecroppers and segregated bathrooms. I didn’t know what to think of two Chinese students who • $2,500 directed to CHS Journalism were brilliant in math but couldn’t speak English well because they had migrated from China after WWII. I • $11,000 directed to the CHS Music program was astonished to learn not long ago from our Alumni for sheet music, instruments, uniforms and newsletter that one of my classmates was the son of an transportation acclaimed Indian chief and has now succeeded him. An Oregon town is even named after his great grandfather. • $13,064 spent to replace the Memorial For- est plaques, and thank you to the individual When I rode the bus from 15th and Columbian Way donating the full amount to CHSAA. downtown, I remember little signs above the seats as touting America as a melting pot and we were all getting • $10,000 is committed to annual scholar- along beautifully. That’s how America was painted. It ships, to be awarded in August 2017 was an Ozzie and Harriett world, a Happy Days world, but only for some. Of course, today we know differ- The CHS Alumni Association provides scholar- ently. ships and other benefits directed towards student activities, including those at the Memorial For- Back then, however, no doubt my fellow students of non- est. Non-student expenses include publication of European ancestry saw it differently. We never heard our newsletter and website costs. Our overhead their stories, and I think now we should. We’d love to is about 6% of our budget and is mostly for in- hear how they experienced Cleveland, their classmates, surance premiums. even their City. Their untold stories will help us better understand the past and the present. Have you visited our website ??? If you were in a minority, how was it growing up in Holly Park or Beacon Hill or Georgetown or South Park? Was www.clevelandalumsea.org Cleveland a welcoming place or did you feel like an out- sider, treated unfairly or roughly? Were the teachers on your side if you faced a problem, or did they brush you off? Were they there to help you grow and develop or were you treated as a second-class citizen, if a citizen at PUZZLES all? Were you included by your fellow students? Were Keep that brain working; try to figure this you emotionally safe and treated equally? Just how do one out.... you remember your days? What was Cleveland like for you? What these seven words all have in com- No one can change the past, but your stories can help us mon? understand it through new voices. And, remember, we 1. Banana can change the future. Please tell us your story. If you rather not sign your 2. Dresser name, we’ll understand. 3. Grammar [Editor’s note: After reading the article in the last newsletter about ‘Rosie the Riveter’ Ken suggested 4. Potato we do a series of articles on diversity at CHS and 5. Revive that he would do the lead article — and here it is. Included in this newsletter are articles by: Mitsuye 6. Uneven Yamada ‘42 who writes about life in an internment camp during World War II; a Seattle Times article 7. Assess about Japanese families that were ordered to intern- ment camps during that period; articles about teach- ers of color at CHS today; and the CHS football team See Puzzle Answer, page 10 kneeling during the national anthem. How about sending in your story on diversity at CHS ???]

PAGE 6 CLEVELAND HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION ( CHSAA ) A FAMILY HISTORY By Mitsuye Yamada ‘42 INTRODUCTION. Both my brother, Tosh Yasutake a position as interpreter for the Immigration and Natu- and I, then known as May Yasutake, attended Cleveland ralization Service, a position he held for 23 years until High School in the years before World War II After writ- 1941. He was well-liked among his colleagues at INS ing Tosh’s obituary for the Cleveland Alumni Newslet- and was for many years a prominent community leader ter last year, I was asked to write my own biography among the Japanese in Seattle. Little did he know that presuming that fellow alums will be interested in know- at the outbreak of World War II, his very “uniqueness” ing what happened to the Japanese American students at (being a well-educated thoroughly assimilated Japanese Cleveland High School after our abrupt departure at the with many American friends) would become fodder for outbreak of that war. Many decades have passed since the FBI to use against him. They suspected him of being those years. Hopefully some of the following narrative a spy for the Japanese government. Within our family of will be of general interest to what must now be a large six, three of us, my parents and I, were labeled “enemy body of ex-Cleveland High alumni living in different aliens” during World War II because we were born in parts of the country, Japan. (I was born in Japan when my mother returned FAMILY BACKGROUND. On that fateful day, De- to Japan to visit her parents.) Not until ten years later cember 7th. 1941, the day Japan bombed Pearl Harbor, in 1952 were we eligible to become naturalized citizens life, as we knew it, had changed forever. The “we” of when the Walter-McCarran Act was passed. My two course included the whole country; the surprise attack older brothers, Mike and Tosh, and younger brother, on the U.S. naval base on the island of Hawaii by the Joe, were native-born American citizens. Japanese planes was the beginning of World War II. EARLY YEARS. My father had a great influence on But we Japanese Americans were plunged into a state my life, and was responsible for my majoring in Eng- of shock, dismay and utter confusion. For my family, lish at Cleveland High School, and becoming an active the event resulted in a major disruption of our family member of the debate team. I was also lucky enough to structure. have had two teachers who inspired me to do well in There were six in my family living on Beacon Hill of high school: my English teacher, Miss Raine and my de- Seattle at the time: my parents, Jack and Hideko Yas- bate teacher, Miss Hall. Miss Raine was a charismatic, utake and four children. My oldest brother, Mike, was dynamic teacher who made Shakespeare “come alive” recovering from a long illness and was confined in bed. by her dramatic readings of the plays. She seemed to My brother, Tosh, had graduated from Cleveland High enjoy our company as much as we enjoyed hers. Miss School and was attending the University of Washington. Hall was a politically astute teacher who insisted that I was in my senior year at Cleveland, looking forward to only by knowing the subject well will we gain confi- graduating the following June, and my 9-year-old broth- dence during our debates. She encouraged us to be er, Joe, was attending Beacon Hill Elementary school. poised and calm during our presentations. She talked non-stop while driving us all over Seattle to other high The patriarch of our family, Jack Yasutake, came to schools to debate tournaments. I was a shy, bookish America from a small farming village in Kyushu, Ja- student and my parents were always focused on our pan, in 1909 when he was seventeen years old. He “getting good grades” above all else in school. Having came on a student visa because, he said, he “wanted to two teachers who were invested in my social as well as get an American education.” When he arrived in San intellectual growth meant a great deal to me In those Francisco, he knew he must work for a while to support days because Japanese American students were “not in- himself, but he discovered no one would hire him be- vited” to join social clubs or run for office of any kind. cause he did not have a work visa. Many of his fellow However, I will always remember my Cleveland High travelers, young Japanese men like him, had come to School experience as being great fun and very reward- America in hopes of “making a fortune” and found jobs ing. It certainly prepared me well for my college years as manual laborers. The only kind of work he was able later on. As it turned out, I did not finish my senior year to do was housework for an American family. Working at Cleveland High School because of an event beyond for a few years as “houseboy” for room and board al- my control: the war. lowed him to go to a mission school to learn English and to attend Lowell High School in San Francisco. During WORLD WAR II YEARS. I remember quite clearly the summer, because he wanted “to improve his elocu- the day that changed our lives forever. tion in English,” he enrolled in a drama school where We heard the disturbing news of Japan’s attack on Pearl he was introduced to Shakespearean plays and poetry. Harbor at church that Sunday morning. We hurried Upon graduation from high school, he moved to Palo home and were huddled around our radio listening to Alto to study engineering at Stanford University, then the news when the doorbell rang. I was the first to run called Leland Stanford Junior College. to answer the door. There stood four grim-faced men in After his studies at Stanford, Jack returned to Japan to suits and one of them demanded “We want to speak to visit his parents who arranged his marriage to Hideko Jack Yasutake.” Shiraki. He returned to San Francisco and moved north “He’s not home,” I said, “He has a poetry club meeting with his bride because he heard there were better job every first Sunday of the month at a restaurant down- opportunities in Seattle. Because of his fluency in Eng- town. Mother is still at church.” lish and Japanese, unusual in those days, he was offered See FAMILY HISTORY — page 8 PAGE 7 CLEVELAND HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION ( CHSAA ) FAMILY HISTORY — Continued from page 7 carry two suitcases per person. In April, 1942, we were This was probably more information than they needed, taken to the Puyallup Fairgrounds. There were a little but in my nervousness, I did not have the presence of over 9,000 of us housed in various parts of the grounds mind to ask them who they were or why they wanted to that were used for cattle and other animals. Our fam- speak to our father. I gave them the name and address ily of five was assigned a room in one of the makeshift of the restaurant and one of the men left while the other shacks that were built on the fairgrounds. We each had three entered the house with their guns drawn. By this a canvas cot, and were told that we can fill the -mus time, Tosh and Joe had come to the front room to find lin ticks with hay that were supplied. By this time, my out what was going on. One of the agents ordered us to invalid brother, Mike, had “somewhat recovered” and sit down on the couch in the living room while he sat seemed to be holding up fairly well under all the strain. on the ottoman opposite us with his gun resting on his In June, 1942, we had a surprise visit from the principal knee. The third and fourth agents searched the house. of Cleveland High School who came to visit the few By this time we had learned that they were FBI agents. of us (I think there were six) who were scheduled to To this day, I’m not sure what they were looking for. graduate that year and handed our diplomas to us. I truly They were very thorough in their search of the house. regret that I do not remember the principal’s name, for They rolled up all the area rugs and removed some this was an act of kindness that I will always remember. floor boards. They removed all the artwork and photo- [Editors note: The principal was probably Kenneth graphs from walls, ripped open the paper backings on Selby who retired in December, 1944.] the frames, and then tossed them on the floor. They took down all the books on the bookshelves (we had many) Our family and many others quickly tried to transform and leafed through some of the books. They took down this bare room into something more habitable. We did stacks of dishes on the kitchen shelves and looked be- not stay in this room very long, for we were moved after tween the dishes. A few hours later, they departed, tak- a few months in August, by train and bus to a place in ing with them several boxes of materials. (We learned the Idaho desert called Minidoka Concentration Camp. several years later after the war when the FBI returned The Seattle Times reported this movement and hap- the boxes to us that they were my father’s journals and pened to take a photograph of my family at the train letters from relatives in Japan they found in my father’s station. The first poem in my book, Camp Notes, recalls desk, and many of Father’s Japanese poetry books and this moment. Mother’s Japanese women’s magazines and novels.) Following is another poem about this experience: My father was arrested that day and held for a period PRELUDE of time in the detention quarters at the INS where he used to work. (He was later moved to prison camps in The train stops at New Mexico. These were prison-of-war camps, quite the end of the tracks separate from the Concentration Camps that the rest Literally. of us were removed to by Executive Order 9066 a few The tracks simply sink into months later.) On that day, the FBI rounded up many the Idaho desert sand. prominent Japanese men such as teachers, ministers Disappear. and active community leaders like our father. Our fam- ily was totally unprepared for this type of emergency. 1942, a sunny April day With the main wage-earner gone and our bank accounts Several hundred young and “frozen” by the government, we had no money to feed old men, women and children the family and pay our bills. Our older brother Mike, from Seattle transported who was diagnosed with tuberculosis, was bedridden,. by train from the temporary Tosh and I scanned the “help-wanted” ads in the Seattle Assembly Center Times but could find nothing that he was qualified for. at the Puyallup Fairgrounds, We found one ad for “housekeeper and babysitter” to We were rickety bussed farther which I responded. It meant I had to discontinue school into the desert. and start working immediately for a photographer’s All of us carry family until the evacuation orders came. an assortment of bags, sacks, CAMP LIFE. In February 1942, President Franklin bundles, babies, in our arms, D. Roosevelt issued an Executive Order 9066 giving After twelve hours we arrive the Secretary of War authority to remove all persons at a gate in the fenced-in area. of Japanese ancestry living on the West Coast, namely What we see below the shades California, Washington, Oregon as well as the southern of the bus window: part of Arizona, to be removed to 16 “temporary assem- rows of tar-papered barracks bly centers.” Meanwhile, ten permanent concentration surrounded by barbed-wire fences. camps were being built in the remote desert areas of the interior to accommodate 120,000 Japanese persons We enter the gated compound living in these states. I suck in my breath. The air is dry. The Japanese in Seattle were ordered to settle our affairs I look back. and meet at the local elementary school to await trans- Outside the fences are blankets port by bus to designated camps. We were allowed to See FAMILY HISTORY — page 11 PAGE 8 CLEVELAND HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION ( CHSAA ) wind. The football Johnny Cherberg - Remembered rolled and rolled and leveland High School won its first and only football rolled some more and Cchampionship in 1937. The coach was a guy by the turned into an 80 yard name of Johnny Cherberg — he was quite a guy. punt that completely Coach Johnny Cherberg came to Seattle from Florida changed the complex- with 11 siblings at age 9. He played halfback at Queen ion of the game. Anne HS and later played halfback at the University of Jimmy Rohletter was an Washington where he was known as “Cowboy.” He got undersized guard who a degree in economics and taught “Civics” at CHS. I played all out on ev- was in one of his classes and he was an expert on gov- ery play. In one of our ernment and politics. Our football team had the small- practice scrimmages est, lightest players in the eight-team city league but he accidentally kicked we kept winning games. me in the groin. I was Even our two big- paralyzed for some time gest players, the tack- after that play. He later les, were less than 200 died from wounds he pounds. We were small received in World War II and his family contributed the but we were scrappy. flag pole at the CHS Memorial Forest in his memory. Royal Brougham, the Seattle Post Intelligenc- Bayne Lamb was the quarterback. He worked for Boe- er’s sports writer, wrote ing for many years and rose through the ranks. He was some glowing columns in charge of constructing the largest building in the about our undersized world (by volume) at Paine Field near Everett where team and especially 747s and now the 787s are now built. He also was the about our smallest, general manager of Seattle Services Division at Boe- lightest player at left ing. Don Harney, the center, graduated from Washing- end – Eddie Blakely – ton State and became a teacher and coach at Roosevelt who weighed only 129 HS. After being an assistant coach for 16 years, he was pounds. Blakely was appointed head football coach for eight years and won really good at evading the state championship three times. He also coached blockers and tackling baseball, soccer and girls softball. He was at Roosevelt the ball carriers. When opponents ran end runs towards for 34 years. He had some hair-raising experiences as his position they would have a wall of blockers, Blakely a bombardier/navigator in B25s during World War II. would disappear in their midst, the play would end with On one bombing run a B25 just a few yards in front of the ball carrier on the ground and Blakely’s arms would his plane took a direct antiaircraft hit that exploded the be wrapped around his legs. It was almost miraculous bomb load and that B25 disappeared in a flash in front the way he did this consistently. of his eyes. Through sheer luck there was no damage to his plane but there was considerable damage to other At season’s end the championship game was to be played planes in the formation from flying debris. At his funer- against perennial winner Garfield HS on Thanksgiving al an Air Force general came to the services and told a Day at UW stadium. I was a freshman and played on story about Harney. His B25 got shot down and made a the freshman team but we scrimmaged a lot against the crash landing behind German lines. He wasn’t hurt but first team in practices and walked up and down the hill the pilot’s legs were badly injured and he couldn’t walk. over that rickety old wooden bridge to play down at the Don Harney carried him piggyback for 5 miles through Georgetown field. enemy territory to reach the Allied lines. In the locker room a few days before the big game I said John Cherberg left Cleveland HS to coach at his Alma “I think the game on Thursday is going to be a lousy Mater at Queen Anne HS where he coached for three game.” Two seconds later Cherberg stuck his head years and their team won the state championship. He out from the coach’s office and hollered “WHO SAID then went to the UW and coached there for three years. THAT?” I admitted it was me, and he asked “Why?” Not long after that he ran for Lt. Governor of Washing- It had been raining hard for several days and the UW’s ton State and wound up serving eight terms — 32 years sod field was all churned up from previous games. So from 1957 to 1989. He was in public service for 55 I said, “With all the rain it’s going to be too muddy to years. His was the longest tenure of any Lt. Governor have a normal game.” And that’s what happened. The in the USA. There is now a John A Cherberg building in game was played in a sea of mud. At a key point in the Olympia which houses the State Senate offices. game Garfield was backed up close to their goal line and on a 4th down play the center hiked the ball over I shortened my name, Martincevic, with two of my the punter’s head and out through the end zone for a brothers after World War II because we were tired of safety. The final score was 2 to 0 for a CHS win. having people misspell and mispronounce our name. I was 14 years old in 1937 when CHS won the football There was a play in another game at the old Civic Stadi- championship and now I’m 94 in 2017. That was 80 um (Now Memorial Stadium) that I remember well. We years ago!!! It sure doesn’t seem that long ago. were backed up next to our goal line and Harry Cloak kicked a line drive punt that was aided by a very strong Emil Martin, Class of 1940 PAGE 9 CLEVELAND HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION ( CHSAA ) FALLEN EAGLES IN MEMORIAM 2016 (not reported before) Rolland L. Lindberg was honored with a contribu- 1940 Irma (Schuehle) Grimes tion from his brother, Don Lindberg. The Ed Landon Scholarship Fund was designated. 1941 Wm. Toshio Yasutake DR 1945 Richard A. Foisy Mitsuye Yamada ‘42 made a contribution to the CHS 1960 Diane (Melgin) Toombs Alumni Association in honor of her brother, William 1965 Stan F. Haberkorn Toshio Yasutake, class of 1941, who passed away on December 12, 2016. Tosh and his family were incar- 1977 Grover K. Yamane MD cerated in an Internment Camp in Idaho during World War II. From this camp in 1943, Tosh volunteered 2017 for the U.S. Army and served as a medic in Italy and France. He was wounded and received a Purple Heart 1934 Audrey (Edson) Knorr and the Bronze Star for his service in the war, and his 1938 Lorraine V. (Stefano) Wallin unit, the famed 442nd Regiment, was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal. After returning to civil- 1940 Irene E. (Rudd) Gross ian life after the war, he studied at the University of 1940 Betty (Cooper) Mac Leod Washington and was celebrated as a pioneer in his 1940 William (Bill) Rudd Jr. * research of fish pathology. He received a Ph.D. from the University of Tokyo. His seminal textbook, “The 1942 Betty (Empens) Truman Microscopic Anatomy of Salmanoids” was published 1945 Bill Wood * in 1983. 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PAGE 10 CLEVELAND HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION ( CHSAA ) FAMILY HISTORY — Continued from page 8 With the cessation of the war and the camps closing one-by-one, hundreds of the Japanese were streaming of low, round, gray sagebrush into Chicago. Because of his bilingual skills, my father stretched out wide for miles and miles. was offered a position as Executive Director of the Chi- cago Resettler’s Committee, an agency that helped the The Minidoka Relocation Center, as it was officially Japanese internees find jobs and lodging in Chicago. called, was located in the desert near the town of Twin He turned his office building into a Japanese American Falls. Forty-four barracks were built near the banks of Community Center for social gatherings and meetings Twin Falls Canal. Each barrack was divided into six and sponsored art shows and sports events. He died in rooms. Our family lived on Block 4, Barrack 4 near the 1953 at age 63. hospital where both Tosh and I worked. There were five cots in our 20 X 20 feet room, a pot-bellied stove in the Mike attended Seabury Western Seminary in Illinois middle. The thing that I remember most vividly are the and was ordained Episcopal priest in 1947. He was a terrific and constant dust storms that plagued us. peace and justice activist and has left an astonishing body of work in his efforts to end human suffering. He I was in Minidoka for a year. During this time I worked used his position as member of the clergy and worked as receptionist and nurse’s aid at the camp hospital. My tirelessly on behalf of oppressed people in Japan, South brother Tosh, who was part of the advance group that Korea, Puerto Rico, Guam and other parts of the world worked to set up the hospital at Minidoka, worked as until his death in 2001, He was also a kendo enthusiast physician’s assistant. Mike worked in the administra- and achieved the black belt level in kendo towards the tion building. end of his life. In a very short period of time, Minidoka was function- Tosh has left a significant body of work on fish diseases ing like a well-run self-sufficient small “town” which at the University of Washington laboratories. He and his indeed it was. wife, Fumi, moved into a retirement home in Seattle TOSH AND THE ARMY. In 1943, an Army recruit- and he died at age 94 in 2016. His obituary is published ment team arrived at the camp to persuade the young in the pages of this newsletter. men to volunteer for the Army. Since the men had be- I am a poet, writer and retired teacher. After my grad- come ineligible for the draft when they were evacuated, uate studies at University of Chicago, I married , Yo- the appearance of this team of two military men created shikazu Yamada, who was studying at Purdue Univer- quite a stir. My poem, “Recruiting Team,” describes the sity. He had served as military intelligence officer for near-riot situation. I can still hear one voice ringing out the Allied Forces. He was part of a team of Japanese “Why should I volunteer? I’m an American, I have a American translators who were credited with translating right to be drafted!” Nevertheless, many young men “the most significant enemy document seized during the volunteered and left camp for basic training in Camp war known as the Z Plan.” [Japan’s 1944 Naval Battle Shelby, Mississippi. My brother, Tosh, was one of Strategy.] We had four children. During most of my life them. He joined the 442nd Regimental Combat Team I have been involved in human rights work with Am- that served in France and Italy. He was wounded but nesty International USA and during the 1980s and 90s survived the war. traveled to Asian countries to help establish Amnesty LEAVING CAM[P. Soon after Tosh’s departure in International local groups in the respective countries. I June, 1943 , Mike and I left to study at the University served two terms as a member of the Board of Direc- of Cincinnati. Before the end of the first year, Mike was tors of AIUSA. I have taught English composition and abruptly expelled from the University when it was dis- literature, poetry, and creative writing at colleges and covered that he was a pacifist who had signed “no” to universities in Southern California for 23 years. key questions on the “Application for Leave Clearance” My younger brother, Joe, is an active community orga- when he left camp. The questions were “Are you will- nizer in San Jose, California. He was a former president ing to serve in the Armed Forces of the United States?” and is present board member of the Japanese American and “Do you foreswear allegiance to the emperor of Ja- Museum of San Jose that chronicles the history of the pan?” Mike answered “no” to the first because he was Japanese Americans in California. He was part of the a pacifist, and “no” to the second because he “didn’t development committee that worked for years to mobi- swear allegiance to the emperor of Japan in the first lize the Japanese community and helped build this mag- place.” Father Joe, the Episcopal priest who was still in nificent structure that now graces a burgeoning com- Minidoka arranged to have him transferred to the Epis- munity in Japantown. copal Monastery in Boston. He then enrolled at Boson University. After my second year at Cincinnati, I left to AFTERTHOUGHTS. In retrospect, I am astonished attend New York University. Left behind with Joe at by how uninformed and ignorant most of us were in Minidoka, Mother decided to join my father in a family 1941 about our civil and constitutional rights as citizens camp in Crystal City Texas. In 1945, after three years and permanent residents of the United States. My two in prison when “no evidence of wrong-doing “ could be older brothers and I were not children at that time, Ex- found, my father was released, cept for Joe who was nine years, we were all in our late teens, all products of the public school system in Seattle. THE YASUTAKES AFTER THE WAR. Upon re- We had never heard of executive orders until 9066 was lease from prison in 1944, my father joined my mother imposed on us. We did not realize the racist nature of in Cincinnati and for a couple of years they worked the evacuation order that singled out those of Japanese as housekeeper and chauffeur for an American family. See FAMILY HISTORY — page 18 Page 11 CLEVELAND HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION ( CHSAA ) On 75th anniversary of internment, Trump travel ban resonates with Seattle’s Japanese Americans By Christine Clarridge Originally published by the Seattle Times on February 18, 2017

People of Japanese descent, relocated from the Seat- tle area, unload their belongings as they arrive at the Washington state fairgrounds in Puyallup in April Mrs.Shigeho Kitamoto & her four children are evacu- 1942. It was used as a temporary assembly center ated along with other people of Jananese heritage from until internees could be taken to other camps. Bainbridge Island on March 30, 1942. Cpl. George t wasn’t until they were locked behind barbed-wire fences, Bushy, a member of the military guard, gave her a hand. Iand assigned to either barracks or horse stalls for living gnancy. Nakano has asked his parishioners to tell their own quarters at the state fairgrounds in Puyallup, that it all sud- internment stories. “Because of their unique history as Amer- denly became real. icans who were incarcerated as ‘enemy aliens,’ they have a special responsibility to tell their stories and educate others,” Until that moment it did not seem possible that the United Nakano said. States would turn against its own citizens, said Louise Kash- More on internment ino-Takisaki, 90, of Seattle. In sermons leading up to the anniversary, Nakano recounted “We thought that maybe our parents, who were immigrants, the history of the internment and the story of the 113-year-old could be affected, and that maybe we would be separated church. The church was spared during the war when the Rev. from them. But we did not think they would put us in camps. E.L. Blaine, a member of one of Seattle’s founding families, We were citizens who were born here,” she said. held the deed in trust until the church’s congregants were re- Kashino-Takisaki was 17 when she and her family were sent leased from the camps in 1945. to the Minidoka War Relocation Center in Idaho after a short “The pressure he faced was enormous,” said Nakano. “But stay at the temporary assembly center in Puyallup. On the 75th anniversary of Executive Order 9066, which in- terned Japanese-Americans during World War II, Tosh and Toshi Okamoto share their story and speak out. She and several other members of Blaine Memorial United Method- ist Church gathered at an apartment in Seattle’s Chinatown International District recently to talk about what happened to them during World War II. Seventy-five years ago — on Feb. 19, 1942, three months af- ter imperial Japan bombed Pearl Harbor — President Frank- lin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066. The order allowed the secretary of war to declare that an area was a military zone, clearing the way for more than 110,000 immigrants from Japan and Japanese American citi- zens who were living in Washington, Oregon and California to be evacuated and interned. The entire membership of the church, then called the Seattle Japanese Methodist Episcopal Derek Nakano, senior pastor at Blaine Memorial United Church, was interned. Methodist Church on Beacon Hill, and associate pastor, Diane Corsilles, have been suggesting to congregants The 75th anniversary of the internment, says its senior pas- that they have a special responsibility to tell their stories tor, the Rev. Derek Nakano, resonates with particular poi- and stand with Muslims, immigrants and refugees.

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Page 12 he stood up for us.” “It is part of our culture to endure and to accept something A planning-committee member, Bif Brigman, said they will that cannot be helped,” said Tosh Okamoto, who fought in make their annual pilgrimage to the camp site at Minidoka, the U.S. Army’s famed 442nd Regimental Combat Team af- ter he was interned. “They didn’t want to make us bitter,” added Nakano, whose parents were also interned. But, Nakano said, with recent developments in the country’s immigration policies, it seemed time to tell those stories. Kashino-Takisaki, whose parents owned a grocery store, and Toshi Okamoto, whose parents ran a hotel, were seniors at Broadway High School in Seattle when the executive order was signed. Tosh Okamoto was working on his family’s farm between Renton and Kent. “We were poor farmers,” he said. Marianne Tada, whose immigrant parents worked in her grandfather’s Seattle restaurant, was only in second grade when Pearl Harbor was bombed Kashino-Takisaki remembers the “shame, humiliation and embarrassment” her parents felt on Dec. 7, 1941. Her father put a large sign that said, “We are Americans!” in the win- dow of the family’s store. But still customers stayed away until they needed the credit he extended in those days. People destroyed or burned pictures of the emperor of Japan and other signs of their heritage. Children were told to speak only English. When they were forced to evacuate, they sold the store for pennies on the dollar, said Kashino-Takisaki. Idaho, where the majority of Washington’s internees were “We were exploited,” she said, about the thousands of West sent. Coast Japanese-American families who lost their homes, churches, businesses, personal possessions and years of hard work. At the end of March 1942, nearly 300 Japanese Americans Reluctant to tell their stories living on Bainbridge Island became the first people in the Like many Japanese Americans who were evacuated from country to begin the forced journey to internment camps. the West Coast and forced into internment camps, none of the Over the next few months, nearly 13,000 Washingtonians church members gathered at that International District apart- would join them. ment — Kashino-Takisaki, Marianne Tada, 82, and Tosh and Each person could take only one small suitcase, said Toshi Toshi Okamoto, 90 and 93 — had spoken much in the past Okamoto. about those years. But it wasn’t until they arrived in Puyallup with thousands In some cases, even their own children had not heard their of other Japanese Americans, filling mattress sacks with hay, stories. each family assigned to a horse stall or a barracks, that Kash- ino-Takisaki accepted what was happening.

Seattle crowds jam an overhead walk to witness Japanese and Japanese Americans from Bainbridge Island as they Mariamme Tada, 82, left, Louise Kashino-Takisaki, walk to a train on March 30, 1942. 90, and Tosh Okamoto, 90, talk in Seattle about liv- ing in internment camps. See 75th ANNIVERSARY — page 19 Page 13 CLEVELAND HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION ( CHSAA ) Wanted: teachers of color Cleveland’s diversity is up, but teaching staff doesn’t reflect it Ronnie Estoque, Reporter [Editors Note: A reprint from the Cleveland Journal] By comparison, the school was 96 percent students of color that same year. For Shinn, his ethnicity mixed with the diversity in his classroom influences the content he teaches. “We talk a lot about race,” he said. “We talk a lot about di- versity … we talk a lot about different types of diversity. It’s not just about race, it’s about various parts.” Teachers for hire. The lack of diversity among teachers doesn’t begin at Cleveland. Across the Seattle School Dis- trict, in the 2015-16 school year, 80 percent of classroom teachers identified as white. This statistic is fairly accurate to the teaching staff’s ethnic makeup at CHS, where teachers of color accounted for 25 percent of the total teaching staff that same year. Humanities teacher Evin Shinn, one of the few What Cleveland lacks in diversity among the teachers is teachers of color at Cleveland, looks over John Al- made up through the school’s administrative team. With a fred Duenas’ work. Shinn believes his race is why he black male principal and assistant principals who are Mexi- has often been associated with his ability to maintain can and a white lesbian, Cleveland’s leaders know the im- order in his classroom, not by his ability to teach. portance of having a staff that reflects the student body. “Of course it matters.” Those were the words a 2016 senior Research has also shown that having a racially, culturally spoke to a teacher of color when asked if it mattered that she and linguistically diverse teaching force provides students didn’t have any black teachers on her schedule. As Cleve- with varying perspectives that allows them to gain a great- land’s student population continues to grow in its diversity, er understanding of the world around them. So why aren’t the disparity between minority students and teachers of color there more teachers of color within education? is widening. Both students and staff members are starting to Finding teachers of color can be difficult, especially when take notice. the number of people entering the profession has fallen to Student diversity has been a cornerstone of Cleveland’s cul- an all-time low. ture, but often overlooked is the other key component of a “It’s not common for first-generation college students to say student’s education: does the teaching staff reflect the student ‘Hey, I want to be a teacher’ because there are these ideas body? This series, “Boxed In,” is dedicated to covering di- that teachers don’t make any money,” said SoED Assistant versity at CHS, whether it be the changing demographics of Principal Ray Garcia-Morales, who identifies as a Mexican the student population or stories around gender identity and male. religion. The Journal hopes to spark conversation and new perspectives for Cleveland students. Mediocre wages, high-stakes testing and the strain of Com- mon Core Standards lessen the appeal for the teaching pro- This is Part 2. Humanities teacher Evin Shinn knows first- fession. And all too often, teachers are blamed for problems hand what it’s like being a teacher of color in a profession within the education system. It’s not hard to see why finding that is typically dominated by his white counterparts. As a good teachers – let alone teachers of color – has become a self-identifying black male in his third year of teaching at national problem. Cleveland, Shinn has often been associated with his ability to maintain order in his classroom, not by his ability to teach. “The hiring process is a pretty bureaucratic nightmare,” said Shinn believes this stigma placed on him directly correlates Andy Coughran, who co-chairs the Humanities department to the fact that he is black. with Shinn. “We need to hire more teachers of color.” “The hidden tax of being a teacher of color is that people are Garcia-Morales, also believes that Seattle Public Schools, always going to look to you to teach about race,” Shinn said. along with other districts around the state, need to change “They’re always going to look to you to teach them about their strategies around their hiring practices. how to relate to ‘those kids.’ Higher learning. Identifying as a white male, Coughran be- “I will never be seen as a great teacher first,” he said. “People lieves that his background has given him more opportunities will always say about me: ‘Man, he really knows how to con- to pick himself up as a student during rough times, which trol a classroom’ but they will never say, ‘Wow, he really included him dropping out of school. Coughran maintains knows how to teach super well.’” he is still constantly learning. According to data taken by the Office of Superintendent of “As a teacher, I have to be a learner; specifically, I have to Public Instruction (OSPI) during the 2015-16 school year, learn about my students because I want to work in a diverse CHS had 44 classroom teachers; 11 were teachers of color. school like Cleveland,” he said.

Page 14 CLEVELAND HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION ( CHSAA ) In college, Coughran took courses that taught about institu- curriculum night. When one black parent entered her class- tional racism, not fully knowing they would eventually pre- room, the woman looked at her with shock. pare him for teaching at a school as diverse as Cleveland. But “She said, ‘You’re black, but your name sounds white,’” for him, it has taken more than a few college courses to help Scribner recalled. The woman told Scribner that she was make him a more culturally-aware person. glad her son would have at least one black teacher. “The way I learn is by being here and embracing it,” “I guess it matters more than I realized,” she said. “When Coughran said. “I have to become an ally, become an ad- that student told me that it mattered to her, I started to feel vocate, and ask questions to try and understand that I don’t the weight of being a black woman and a role model. Now, know everything.” I try to make sure that students of color, especially black While Coughran has found ways to identify with his students students, know that they can come to me with anything.” of color, some of his white counterparts struggle with it. The Not everyone feels that the race of a teacher impacts student staff spent part of their summer training discussing racial eq- learning. Junior Yusuf Ahmed believes that the staff culture uity. The atmosphere became tense when the school district at Cleveland has created an environment safe for students of appointed two white women to lead the discussion around all backgrounds. the disparity in the disciplining of black male students. It was Shinn who pointed out the irony. “I believe that most of the teachers here are very welcom- ing,” Kekuna said. “We [teachers] do come together; we do “It doesn’t take Olivia Pope to see the optics right now,” he try to problem solve a lot.” said to a crowded auditorium in August. Special education teacher Jennifer Kekuna is one of the few Women of color. Sonya Urs, an Indian-American Human- women of color on Cleveland’s staff. Kekuna is Hawaiian, ities teacher, is one of the few female teachers of color at Filipino and Japanese. Cleveland. Because of her ethnic background, she faced ste- reotypes as a student in high school. Being born and raised in Hawaii, Kekuna was exposed to a large pool of diversity during her time in high school. Once “A lot of the times people have assumed that I was really she made the decision to attend Gonzaga University, she smart,” Urs said. “That was difficult because a lot of the time experienced quite the culture shock that made her reflect I didn’t feel like the smartest person in the room.” deeply on her Hawaiian, Filipino and Japanese background. Urs uses her experience to connect with students who may “I use [ethnicity] in a positive way now, as a teacher to con- face similar expectations from others. She has grasped the nect myself with students who are brown, like me,” Kekuna importance of creating curriculum that is relevant to students said. “It has definitely strengthened me; and it’s has opened of color and their experiences. my heart more.” “As I was becoming an educator, I wanted to make sure that Senior Richard Nguyen said the lack of staff diversity un- the curriculum I teach reflects what my students are inter- dermines a student’s ability to connect with certain teachers ested in but also represents who they are,” Urs said. that may not share similar experiences. Cleveland Publications Archives. Media teacher Teresa “Not many staff are of color, so it sometimes is hard for students of color to connect with them. I feel like we should try to change that.”

Media teacher Teresa Scribner is the only black female teacher on Cleveland’s staff.

Scribner is the only black female teacher on Cleveland’s staff. Special education teacher Jennifer Kekuna is one Last March, when a student pointed out to media teacher Te- of the few women of color on Cleveland’s staff. resa Scribner that she was the only black female teacher at Cleveland, Scribner did a mental count in her head. “I named off all the black women I knew on staff and the girl responded with, ‘those women aren’t teachers,’” Scribner re- called. Until then, Scribner hadn’t put much thought into the racial makeup of the school’s staff. But she remembered a time dur- ing her first year of teaching when she attended Cleveland’s

Page 15 CLEVELAND HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION ( CHSAA ) Al Hostak inducted into World Boxing Hall of Fame after 60-year snub By Barbara Nilson [Editor: This article was originally published in the Voice of the Valley on November 5, 1997] counted to 10. “I jumped ten feet into the air,” declared Hostak, “I had been dreaming since I was 16 of being the champion of the world.” Among the celebrities present were Jack Benny and Dave Beck, president of the Teamster’s Union, who was seated in Steele’s corner. The fight was at the Civic Stadium, located where the Memorial Stadium now stands next to the Seattle Center. Hostak said he played football on that field for Cleveland High School and when he was putting on his trunks to fight the world champ, he realized he was using the same locker that he had kept his football jersey in four years before. “I felt like it was a spiritual coincidence,” said Hostak, “it made me feel good, I had been a pretty good football player and maybe that would spill over into beating the champ.” Greatest Puncher “Dempsey, former heavyweight champ, was the referee and he said I was the greatest puncher he ever saw, so said Tom- my Burns, another heavyweight champion; but still New York wouldn’t recognize me,” Hostak said with a trace of the old bitterness. “There were naysayers who said, it was a ‘lucky punch.’ What they didn’t know,” said Hostak, “is that I had been studying Steele for two years. I would be on the boxing card while Steele was the main event as champion of the world.” “Everyone said he was unbeatable, but I saw his weakness,” said Hostak, as the energetic 81-year-old leapt up and start- ed jabbing and moving his feet quickly to demonstrate his knockout technique. POWERFUL FISTS clasp Al Hostak’s Boxing Hall “It’s as easy as one, two, three,” said Hostak, as his power- of Fame plaque. Around his neck is the gold medal ful fists kept rhythm with his feet. One, on guard, elbows for which he has waited 60 years. — in, fist six inches in front of your face for the first jab; then Photo by Barbara Nilson. two, turn, retire, come with your right hand; then three, with the left hook, keeping always a 45-degree angle with weight ixty years after knocking out the world boxing champ, Al behind the punch.” SHostak was finally inducted into the world Boxing Hall Marino is Manager of Fame on October 25, 1997 in Los Angeles. It was a bit- tersweet moment. “I had the greatest manager, Eddie Marino,” fondly recalled Hostak, “he was hard, but he knew what he was doing. I re- When Hostak knocked out Freddie Steele of Tacoma on ally believed in the guy.” July 26, 1938 in Seattle, the powerful Boxing Commission was located in New York and they wouldn’t recognize the When Hostak was a 14-year-old kid at Cleveland High 22-year-old Hostak as the new world champ. The commis- School, Marino opened a gym and card room in George- sion wanted Steele to fight “their boy,” Fred Apostoli of New town. Hostak said he had been training with the McCoy York, for the middleweight title. brothers, but was impressed with the new layout. He was too shy to ask if he could join the gym because he stam- “They wanted to control boxing,” said Hostak, “this teed me mered; so his brother did the asking. Marino told him to off; made me bitter. A person can’t do anything when you’re bring his dad down with an O.K. full of bitterness.” Hostak’s dad was a glass beveller who had immigrated with Seattle was ecstatic when the home town boy from George- his wife from Czechoslovakia. They raised a family of four town beat Steele in the first round in front of a crowd of over boys and two girls in Georgetown. Al purchased them a 35,000. After the first knock down with a left hook, people home for around $4,000 out of his $5,800 earnings from the were standing and screaming, he said; by the third hit, Steele Steele fight. was down on his knees and stayed there while Jack Dempsey Page 16 CLEVELAND HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION ( CHSAA ) With his father’s permission, his training started in earnest. Marino encouraged him to continue his boxing career. Five He said he could beat any kid in Georgetown; but Marino months later, Hostak fought Solly Krieger in New York and gave him the foundation to become a really good fighter. He lost his title in a 15-round battle. had a bout about once a week when he was 16, but his man- “He had a bard head,” said Hostak, “I hit him there with my ager said he was 18. That posed a problem at school as he left and when I used it again for a left hook the pain shot up was over the age limit for attendance. my arm. The hand was broken.” When World War II came along, Hostak was drafted. He After 16-months of rehab, he fought Krieger again and trained in the 11th Airborne and the 13th Armored division in knocked him out, regaining his title, but he never could get California until they discovered he had held the world boxing in the right mood again, he said. championship. He was then assigned to train the boxers in that division. When he fought Tony Zale in 1941 in Chicago, the deci- sion went to Zale, “the home town boy,” but even the crowd One Last Fight booed the decision, said Hostak, “I should have won.” After the war, he was scheduled to fight Jack Snapp on his “Zale was a big strong guy. I never disliked any of the 33rd birthday, Jan. 7, 1949. He had been married the year guys I fought. It was just a business, a way to make money. before and his wife was encouraging him to leave the ring. Zale told me I was the best fighter he ever fought,” recalled “In fact,” laughed Hostak, “she said she would leave me if I Hostak. Rocky Graziano saw that fight and refused to fight didn’t quit.” Hostak. “But I heard they thought Snapp was an up and coming An acquaintance of Zale’s from his hometown of Gary, Indi- fighter and if he could win over me that would make him ana, George Lake, a former lightweight boxer, knew of this a big star. That made me mad. I got a touch of my old self admiration and, along with George Chemaris, a fight pro- back and knocked him out in the ninth round. It was my last moter, kept nominating Hostak to the Boxing Hall of Fame, fight,” smiled Hostak. unbeknownst to Hostak. His youngest son, Phil, of Maple Valley, read the announce- [Editor: In 2003, Hostak made Ring Magazine’s list of ment of his dad’s acceptance in the world Boxing Hall of 100 greatest punchers of all time. Fame on Oct. 14 1997, the day before his birthday. Nicest birthday present I could have,” he said. Janet Furlan Henkel ‘54 gets a gold star for submitting this story.] Upon his return from his all-expense-paid trip to California. Hostak took his plaque and gold medal to his grandson, A.J.’s first grade class at Lake Wilderness Elementary. The stu- dents were delighted. He has four other grandchildren, Katrina, 8, and Natalie, 10, who also attend Lake Wilderness; and two grandchildren in Renton: Ashley, 9, and Chad, 6, children of his oldest son, Terry. Hostak, a widower, was accompanied to the ceremony in California by his two sons. When he got up to give his ac- ceptance speech, he didn’t stammer at all. Hostak said, “I don’t know what to do up here, I need a bell,” and the 1000 people in attendance started clinking their glasses. It was worth the 60-year wait. Stammer Brought Spirit Hostak said the reason he got into fighting was that he stam- mered and would panic whenever he had to read in class at St. George’s Catholic School and came to a word with the “st” sound. “Kids would laugh at me and I couldn’t wait until recess be- cause I was good at sports and didn’t have to talk,” recalled Hostak, “so I figured I could let my hands do the talking for me.” “I hit guys who laughed at me because of my speech impedi- ment. It gave me the fighting spirit I needed. People would say I was a brave guy – not so. I was chicken, yellow belly, compared to the reason I was running away.” After the Steele fight, Hostak lost his desire to fight, “My spirit was gone.” He asked, “Why didn’t the governor of this state take New York to court? I felt like they had deserted me and I couldn’t handle it.”

Page 17 CLEVELAND HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION ( CHSAA ) FAMILY HISTORY — continued from page 11 ancestry but not of Italian and German origin. I did not ALUMNI UPDATES know until years later that executive orders were used only for routine administrative matters until Franklin D. Ken Smith ‘57 — When I graduated from CHS in 1957, Roosevelt exercised his authority to designate certain I entered the UW as a physics major, and within a week I areas of the West Coast states as “military zones” from knew I was over my head. I switched to math, and though which “any or all persons may be removed.” It never still over my head, I somehow got through, added a sec- occurred to us that our constitutional rights were being ond BA in political science and went to George Washington violated. The Fifth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution University for an MA in government. I’ve had a fun career, states reads in part “. . . no person shall be deprived of having worked for NASA, the federal poverty program, and life, liberty or property without due process of law.” By was the director of California Common Cause. I helped start “due process,” it means individuals cannot be deprived a Savings and Loan, and I’ve been partners in a consulting of life or liberty without an opportunity to defend them- firm raising money for groups such as Greenpeace, Planned selves in court. Although it was assumed by the general Parenthood, and public television stations. I ran a success- public and even ourselves that our removal was done for ful initiative campaign to clean up California government reasons of “national security,” subsequent studies have and was the assistant national campaign manager for John found that the evacuation of the Japanese during World B. Anderson for President in 1980 (remember him? He got War II was “not justified by military necessity.” This 7% of the vote). I earned a doctorate in public administra- misrepresented and misunderstood chapter in Ameri- tion from USC, and for forty years I’ve written a subscrip- can history should be included in our textbooks, and all tion-only monthly newsletter for traveling scuba divers. It American children should be made aware of how easily wasn’t until I was 60 that I married, and my wife Lucia and their own civil rights can be violated. I (we live in San Rafael, CA) now travel extensively, diving A WORD OF GRATITUDE TO THE ISSEIS. The and hiking throughout the world. In March, my eco-thriller, people who were most tragically impacted by these Tropical Ice was commercially published and is available events of World War II and the concentration camp ex- in books stores and Amazon. It’s about a travel writer, after perience are the Isseis, the first generation Japanese, my discovering a body, pursues shark finners, jaguar poachers, parents’ generation. Most of them had come to the Unit- and those who wreck reefs and rainforests for profit. Have a ed States in the early 1900s with dreams of bettering look: www.tropicalicethriller.com their lives. They lived through harsh times: the Great Depression and intense discrimination against Asians. They were just beginning to enjoy a somewhat comfort- able life in their middle years, when the country of their birth and the country of their American-born children were at war. Their loyalties to their adopted country were under suspicion, They were forced to leave behind their homes and jobs, and they spent three years in con- centration camps. My parents were luckier than most, but many of the older generation were not able to re- sume their former lives, lives they spent decades build- ing, and became dependent on their now grown chil- dren. My brothers and I, and all subsequent generations of Japanese Americans, owe a deep debt of gratitude to these stalwart Isseis who, in a relatively short period of time, established a firm foundation in this country for us to build on.

Page 18 CLEVELAND HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION ( CHSAA ) remove your hat when you hear the first strands of the song? We believe that the reasons why people stand for the national anthem varies on what the flag and the song means to them individually. Often overlooked, the third stanza of ‘The Star- Spangled Banner’ includes the line “No refuge could save the hireling and slave/ From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave.” This has sparked the conversation as to wheth- er or not the song is racist, and shows how ironic the song can be when it’s role is to highlight the freedom and justice that supposedly exists for everyone in our country. Cleveland football players take a knee dur- With all the chaos that is happening in our country revolv- ing the National Anthem ing around police shootings and racial prejudice, it is clear Ronnie Estoque, Reporter to see that justice does not ring within our country’s land. Even within our own school district there are equity issues [A partial reprint from the Cleveland Journal.] that are yet to be fixed. Kapernick’s protest is synonymous San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick sparked with Cleveland’s decision to change our own racial bias and major controversy when he decided to remain seated during injustices within our community. To those who do stand for the National Anthem of a preseason game this past August. the National Anthem, we pose the question: Are liberties of His act of protest was to shed light on police brutality and all people being upheld by our justice and school systems? racial injustices that have been occurring across our country The staff unanimously approved the silent protest as part of – but what followed was a storm of contrasting criticism and Kaepernick’s first amendment rights. support from people from all over. [Editor’s Note: The Washington Times - Monday, July As a publication, we are in full support of Kaepernick’s pro- 11, 2016: A study by Harvard economics professor Ro- test of the National Anthem as we deem it his First Amend- land Fryer found no evidence of racial bias in police ment right and our responsibility to shine a light on acts of shootings but officers were more likely to be physical injustice that revolve around racial prejudice within our own with non-whites. Professor Fryer is a black man.] community. Our school has been active on its stance on the Black Lives 75th ANNIVERSARY — continued from page 13 Mater movement. On October 19, Cleveland teachers were amongst the 2,000 educators in the Seattle School District “It was still hard to believe,” she said. “We felt betrayed.” that wore “Black Lives Matter” shirts to school. Students In 1988, President Ronald Reagan signed legislation that of- also joined the act of solidarity by wearing all black to school fered a formal apology for the internment and $20,000 in that same day to show their support. compensation to each surviving internee. The achievement gap between black students and their coun- Unexpected blessings terparts is absurdly high. According to the Seattle School District in 2013-14, the suspension/expulsion rate for Afri- Despite what Nakano described as “deep psychic scars” can-American students was four times higher than for white caused by the internment, there were also some unexpected students. These students that miss school due to suspension blessings, he said. miss critical days of school and can fall behind in their class- Tosh Okamoto said that because of the internment, Japanese es. Consequentially, African American students and other Americans grew to know each other well and form a very students of color are receiving high school diplomas at an tight-knit community. Lifelong bonds of friendship and mar- alarmingly lower rate than their white peers. riage abounded. To tackle this issue, Cleveland has implemented restorative Kashino-Takisaki met her first husband, famed war hero justice circles, that are led by the new Dean of Students, Shiro Kashino of the 442nd, while inside Minidoka. He died Caine Lowery. Instead of immediately handing out suspen- 20 years ago and she has since remarried, she said. sions to students for breaking school code, students are invit- And Tosh Okamoto, who as a mechanic became the first ed to have discussions with Lowery and teachers about how Japanese American to work in the Seattle Fire Department, to reach more effective solutions. was inspired to co-found Nikkei Concerns. The charitable Traditions such as standing up for the National Anthem have organization that cares for the elderly was formed after he become symbols that we associate with national pride for our and others saw what happened to the parents of sons who country. When symbols such as the flag are put into question, had died proving their allegiance to the U.S. in the war. people become angry and are easily riled up, but remain si- The whole community learned to value things that could not lent when unarmed black men are killed by the police. be confiscated or seized, said Nakano. “That is why they Many of Kaepernick’s critics say his act of kneeling is dis- wanted us to get good educations, because no one can ever respectful towards veterans who have served our coun- take that away from you.” try. Those people have misconstrued his action with All four parishioners said they’ll defend this country, its their own personal beliefs about the flag and why they principles and its people as long as they’re able. stand up before games. And the same people who are complaining about Kaepernick taking a knee are usually the “We feel the urgency and uniqueness of our story,” said same ones on their cell phones, disengaged, when the Nation- Marianne Tada, “ … and that gives us the obligation and the al Anthem plays. How many of you stop where you are and honor to stand up in solidarity with those who are suffering.” Page 19 CLEVELAND HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION ( CHSAA ) ALUMNI EVENTS - Past & Future If your class is planning a class reunion in 2017 or 2018, please contact CHSAA Secretary/Membership for the latest contact information. We will publish the details, date, place, etc. in our newsletter and on our website. www.clevelandalumsea.org ­ Class of 1952 — We are having its 65th reunion on June 15, 2017, at Billy Baroo’s bar and grill, Foster Golf Course. The address is 13500 Interurban Ave. So. Tukwila, WA. 98136. The cost of $35.00 per person includes lunch, beverages, and a no host- bar. All alumni are invited, especially those in the classes of 1951 and 1953. Please contact Don White 206-714-1977, or Jim Lambo 206-243-6553.

Class of 1955 — CHS Class of 1955 will be holding our 2nd Annual Reunion Luncheon on — “Save the Date” — August 10, 2017 at the Glen Acres golf and Country Club – 1000 S 112th St, Seattle. Estimated Cost: $20 Projected time of Day: 11:30 AM till 4 PM. Classes of ’54, ’56 and any other Alumni are most welcome to attend. Those who attended last year’s event will be contacted by mail or email with Registration information by approximately July 20th. As with last year’s event, we will need RSVP’s for seating count. Luncheon cost will be collected at the door sign-in. Those who are new to the event and would like to attend, or if anyone has questions, would like more information, or want to up-date your address please contact – Betty Morse Stewart – 360-402-5056 or [email protected] Beverly Bull Minice – 206-228-0258 or [email protected]

Class of 1965 — CHS 1965 Alumni, Family and Friends - Save the date! You’re invited to “Welcome the 70’s” night at Southcenter’s Bahama Breeze in Tukwila on Wednesday, September 13th from 4 - 8 PM, but you can stay later. We reserved a room with a stage and firepit in a tropical setting and expect 75 to 100 guests. It’s a “No Host” event and Bahama Breeze has two happy hours. The happy hours are from 4 - 6 PM and 9 PM until closing. The happy hours will feature specials on both their cocktails plus plenty of 1/2 price tasty appetiz- ers. Ron Bowman will MC again, there’ll be special guests, door prizes and more. There’s no charge, but you can purchase drinks and/or food if you desire. We look forward to you coming, feel free to pass this on and bring anyone you want. Please RSVP as soon as possible to help us plan the event to - Joanna Uchida Smith at 253-631-0360 or [email protected] - Joanna will also send out snail mail to those without email. Please provide us any address/email changes. Continues on page 21

THE CHALLENGE As you are planning your class reunion, the CHS class of 1970 would like to challenge you to raise funds to support Cleveland. If your class or business can donate a minimum of $2000 direct- ly to the school administration for their use, your class or busi- ness will get a name plate on the Soaring Eagles plaque (shown on right). If you would like your gift to be tax-deductible, you can make an individual donation to the school on behalf of your class for that calendar year. In addition, some employers may match your contribution. Check with your employer and ac- counting specialist regarding any matching and tax regulations. Donations can be presented to the Fiscal Officer at CHS. Please coordinate any donations with your class reunion committee.

Page 20 CLEVELAND HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION ( CHSAA ) Continues from page 20 Thanks and we’ll see you in September - Mahalo! Your CHS 65 Team - Joanna Uchida Smith, Gary Lowe, Donna Yip-Lew, Joe & Linda Visaya, Mike & Tassy Ptolemy Barrington, Ron Bowman, Carol Ruljancich O’brien, Kathy Korpela-Niemann, Kay Jonientz Bowman, Mike & Linda Mason Rutter, Wes Pruitt, Bill & Barb Burr Murphy PS - You’re welcome to attend our next meeting Sunday, May 7th at 2 PM at the Southcenter Claim Jumper - please let us know if you’re coming - thanks!

Class of 1962 — The Class of ‘62 will hold its 55-year reunion at Angelo’s Ristorante in Burien WA on Saturday Sept 9th, 2017. It will be an afternoon, informal, no-host event. If you did not receive this information via email in April, and wish to receive updates via email, send us your Email address to [email protected].

Class of 1967 — Friday July 14, 2017 – Informal drop-in JACK’S BBQ (Courtyard Patio) 3924 Airport Way S. Seattle, WA 98108 (Located 2 blocks south of Spokane Street) Time: 4pm to 7:30pm **** Cost: $10 per person at the restaurant courtyard BBQ picnic baskets will be provided. Saturday July 15, 2017 Fairwood Golf and Country Club 17070 140th Ave. SE Renton, WA 98058 COCKTAILS — 5pm - in tent next to ballroom BUFFET DINNER — 6pm - in ballroom END OF THE EVENT — 10:30pm **** Cost: $60 per person DUE to Char Grinolds by July 7, 2017 (Fairwood requires final headcount) Please send check to: Charlene Grinolds 25111 120th Pl SE Kent, WA 98030 Note: 50% financial assistance is available for classmates in need until funds from previous reunion are exhausted. Please contact Char Grinolds ([email protected], 253-630-2279) directly for details and request.

Class of 1987 — 30 year class reunion. Date is August 19, 2017

BF DAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL – 125th Birthday Celebration BF Day is the longest continuously run Seattle Public School. Where: 3921 Linden Ave N, Seattle Time: Noon to 5 PM Date: May 11th (we think). Call 206-252-6010 to confirm. What : Carnival FREE CHS Everyone is invited especially former students.

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PLATINUM EAGLES ($1000-$4999) 1951 William C. Lantz OTHER CONTRIBUTORS 1967 Greg Di Martino 1943 Alfred Chris 1980 Steven T. Mikami 1945 Carolyn (Elfen) Brewer 1945 Gloria (Suter) Stone GOLDEN EAGLE ($500-$999) 1948 Elsie (Vanni) Jorgensen 1948 Suzanne (Desimone) Hittman 1949 Louise (Bianchi) Bullington 1958 Victor Munsen 1950 Miriam (Baughman) Munro 1958 Clarence (Chuck) Seeliger 1951 Harold L & Sandra (Olson) Kendall 1952 Joan (Carl) Jackson SILVER EAGLE ($200-$499) 1955 Janie Jo (Winstead) Roaf 1942 Olive E. (Clark) Brown 1955 Nancy L. (Farrell) Woodward 1954 John & Mary Lou (Zarkades) Barton 1958 Donna (Burke) Sherman 1955 Bev (Bull) Minice 1961 Dale A. & Hazel (Connelly) Johnson 1958 Susan (Araki) Yamamura 1963 Kay (Bowman) Gordon 1956 Ronald & Virginia (Crisp) Fairbairn 1964 Sally (Sullivan) Padilla 1957 Ralph Yocum 1965 Donna L. (Lancaster) Reed 1958 Daniel & Kathleen (Brunie) Currie III 1966 Reiko (Takei) Shimono 1958 Alice (Thompson) Stanley 1967 Nancy (Azevedo) Mc Cormick 1959 Howard H. Wang 1972 Terri L. (Wong) Naito 1962 John K. Keppler 1974 Eleanor J. (Jackson) Garrett 1963 Thomas J. Higgins 1963 Rosann M. (Smith) Lewis 1965 Clyde G. Fulmer, Jr CLASS DONATIONS 1967 Randy & Mary (Roppo) Brown The number of donors for all 2016 donations are tabu- 1967 MaryAnne Reichle lated below for each decade. The most donors to the 1974 David J. Everitt CHS Alumni Association were in the 1950s decade with a significant margin over the 1940s: BRONZE EAGLE ($100-$199) 1940 Emil (Martincevic) Martin 1940s 49 donors 1980s 1 donor 1942 Nezita (Smith) Campbell 1950s 74 1990s 0 1943 Donald R. Bristol 1960s 42 2000s 0 1948 Roberta (Skerry) Tomkinson 1970s 13 2010s 0 1952 Lola (Ross) Simmons The obvious surprise is that out of the last 36 classes we 1952 Don White only have one alumni who made a donation in 2016. 1953 John O. Mc Arthur What are we doing wrong ??? I have great difficulty in 1956 Anita Joy (Tarrach) Correy understanding the above results. Is it the school that is 1956 Warren C. Shukis not establishing a bond between school and student ??? 1956 Donald J. Vizzare Or is it the Alumni Association that is not convincing the 1957 Judy (Mc Donnel) Keithley younger alumni to support the school that helped make 1959 Janice S. Anderson them who they are ??? Comments from our readers are 1959 Cheri Tucker welcome. 1960 Jeri Drager The class of 1956 had the most donors in the 1950s de- 1960 Valerie L.. (Fierling) Nelson cade: 1961 George J. & Marilyn (Jones) Levar 1950 _9 donors 1955 _6 donors 1962 Lawrence R. Bosi 1951 _4 1956 13 1964 Sherian R. (Butler) Grimes 1952 _5 1957 _5 _ 1966 Teri (Uchida) Ishihara 1966 Amy (Okazaki) Maki 1953 _5 1958 _7 1967 Harry M. Huey 1954 10 1959 10 1967 David M. Nelson 1968 Charles C. Lindberg — John Barton ‘54 1976 Clifton L. Chiu Stf Meri Shimada

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I would like to support the work of the Alumni Association with a donation as indicated below: Mailing expenses – ($15 suggested) $______Alumni Association General Fund (unrestricted) $______YOUR DONATIONS CHS Athletic Fund $______ARE TAX Memorial Forest Fund $______Annual Scholarship Fund $______DEDUCTIBLE Scholarship Endowment Fund* (Restricted) $______CHSAA is classified as a 501(c)(3) Ed Landon Scholarship Fund $______non-profit organization so your dona- My Total Donation is $______tions are deductible on your federal income tax. Alumni Donations totaling: Eagle 100 Club Designation: $100 - $199 Bronze Eagle $200 - $499 Silver Eagle WE ENCOURAGE YOU $500 - $999 Golden Eagle $1,000 - $4,999 Platinum Eagle TO SUBMIT AN ALUM- $5,000 - $9,999 Diamond Eagle $10,000 plus Special Honors NI UPDATE

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